Wednesday, January 26, 2011

No more squeaking

Thankfully, I finished the socks. The spouse likes them:


Squeaky socks


He wore them today and I missed taking a picture this morning with daylight. Sorry for the evening blurry picture.

I dug out some yarn I dyed in 2006. I predicted back then that it was going to take me a couple of years to knit it up. Well, as usual, I was being over-optimistic.


Hideous socks


And as I go on knitting, I realize how hideous the color combination is. That's the problem with dyeing, you never know what you get because wet yarn looks darker that it actually is. I will keep on knitting and maybe later give the socks another dye bath. We'll see.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Almost Done!

Thanks to watching "Bones" over Netflix. We still don't have a TV and don't miss one, but it's nice to catch up with popular TV shows without publicity.

Squeaky Socks


I have done about 1 cm of ribbing. Maybe I will finish them up today, let's see if I manage.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Heels and flowers.

The squeaky socks have heels. If I'm watching a movie while I knit the squeaking is bearable.

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Oh yes, and the spouse sent me flowers. He's totally earning these socks.

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Squeaky socks

It's time to start a new pair of socks for the spouse. I did promise I'd use that gloomy gray yarn soon. But alas, not only is it gloomy, it also squeaks! It's all synthetic: nylon and acrylic. It's driving me nuts. Stitch after stitch, it squeaks loud enough that I can hear it and even feel the vibrations on my fingers.

Squeaky socks


The pattern is Gentleman's Fancy Socks (ravlery link). The spouse chose the pattern, which by coincidence I had also chosen for myself (from the same library book) three years ago.

Tomorrow will be my first day at the new job... I'm so nervous... maybe that's why I can't stand the squeaking.

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Happy New Year!

This year starts well enough for me, with a recently finished pair of socks. I said I was going to knit until I ran out of yarn, and I did!

Scarlet Fever


I tried that once before when knitting the sunset socks, also with Opal yarn. In that occassion I was using the Coriolis pattern and I ran out of yarn earlier. Coriolis looks simple enough but it does use up more yarn than a plain sock. These socks are definitely longer.


Scarlet Fever


They stay up if I am not moving around much, but I plan on adding elastic thread later on.

I used this bindoff, which is a variation of what I always do (learned from Vaxgirl), except I do purls instead of knits. The results are very similar.

Another great thing about this New Year is that I will be starting a new job soon. I will not be making as much money as before, but it beats being unemployed, right?
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